Hollywood

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Shifting between glamour and world child welfare,

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Angelina Jolie invested part of her film career in CGI acting.

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Oscar

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Angelina Jolie received an Oscar for the Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Girl, Interrupted (dir. James Mangold, 2000), an indie film about women in a mental hospital.

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Jon Voight left the family when Angelina was about a year old. She uses her middle name, Jolie, in lieu of her last name at birth.

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Q: Is Angelina Jolie Slovak?

Angelina Jolie Voight was born in Beverly Hills (Los Angeles) on 4 June 1975. One of her great-grandfathers, George Voytka (Jur or Juraj Vojtka), was born in Košice, now the Slovak and European home of U.S. Steel, on 24 April 1879 and immigrated around 1894. He identified as Slovak in the 1910 Census.

Click on Jon Voight, her actor father, for details.